Friday, January 16, 2009

The Great Portland Storm

We had a crazy storm up here in Portland over the Christmas holiday. Everything literally shut down for weeks. Schools were closed for a week, church was canceled for 2 weeks, the roads were insane and I literally didn't even leave the house for 2 weeks except to play in the snow and to venture to the grocery store one night only to realize that I couldn't push the cart through the parking lot. So what did we do for 2 weeks in the house. . . 

We at ate a lot of this (these were supposed to be friends/neighbors gifts that were rendered undeliverable due to the weather, so eventually disappeared (not quite sure how that happened:)

We got crafty!

We hauled away bits of the ginormous tree that literally uprooted from our front yard on Christmas Eve and fell across the street.

We marveled at the inch-thick ice that developed overnight on top of the already 6 inches of snow.

And we played and played and played in the snow and we got our "white Christmas" even though we weren't in Utah this year. It was perfect!

3 comments:

Jennifer said...

Cute pictures! That last one the girls look so gorgeous!

PADA said...

Wow, Lanie. Look at all that candy. You could seriously go into business. It looks so yummy. I can't believe all the snow. And I hear there is more on the way. Miss you guys!!!!!

Jillyn said...

mmmm you fudge is delightful! Wish I had some of that right about now!!